Po Valley
The Po Valley, Po Plain, Plain of the Po, or Padan Plain is a major geographical feature of northern Italy. It extends approximately 650 km in an east-west direction, with an area of 46,000 km2 including its Venetic extension not actually related to the Po basin; it runs from the Western Alps to the Adriatic Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Plain
- Description: plain in Northern Italy
- Also known as: “Padania”, “Pianura Padana”, and “Po River Plain”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Teatro Giuseppe Verdi and Villanova d’Arda railway station.
Teatro Giuseppe Verdi
Theater building
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Teatro Giuseppe Verdi is a small opera house located in a wing of the Rocca dei Marchesi Pallavicino on the Piazza Giuseppe Verdi in Busseto, Italy, a town closely associated with the life of the opera composer, Giuseppe Verdi. Teatro Giuseppe Verdi is situated 4 km southeast of Po Valley.
Villanova d’Arda railway station
Railway station
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Villanova d’Arda railway station is situated 3 km north of Po Valley.
National Giuseppe Verdi Museum
Museum
The National Giuseppe Verdi Museum is a music museum in Busseto, Province of Parma, Italy. It is dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi and is housed at the Renaissance Villa Pallavicino. National Giuseppe Verdi Museum is situated 4 km southeast of Po Valley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Polesine Parmense and Madonna dei Prati.
Polesine Parmense
Village
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Polesine Parmense is a town in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 120 kilometres northwest of Bologna and about 30 kilometres northwest of Parma. Polesine Parmense is situated 7 km east of Po Valley.
Madonna dei Prati
Village
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Madonna dei Prati is a village, which is situated 8 km southeast of Po Valley.
Le Roncole
Hamlet
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Le Roncole is a village in the province of Parma of Italy, a frazione of the comune of Busseto. It is located 140 km southeast of Milan. It is best known as the birthplace on the 9th or 10th of October 1813 of opera composer Giuseppe Verdi. Le Roncole is situated 8 km southeast of Po Valley.
Po Valley
- Categories: plain, valley, and landform
- Location: Emilia-Romagna, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Po Valley” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Povlakte”
- Arabic: “وادي بو”
- Armenian: “Պադանի հարթավայր”
- Azerbaijani: “Padan ovalığı”
- Basque: “Po ibaiaren harana”
- Belarusian: “Паданская раўніна”
- Bulgarian: “Паданска низина”
- Bulgarian: “Паданска равнина”
- Catalan: “Pianura padana”
- Catalan: “Plana padana”
- Catalan: “Plana Padana”
- Catalan: “Planura padana”
- Catalan: “Val padana”
- Catalan: “Vall del Po”
- Cebuano: “Pianura Padana”
- Chinese: “波河河谷”
- Chinese: “波谷”
- Corsican: “Pianura Padana”
- Croatian: “Dolina Poa”
- Czech: “Pádská nížina”
- Danish: “Po-sletten”
- Danish: “Posletten”
- Dutch: “Povlakte”
- Esperanto: “Pada ebenaĵo”
- Esperanto: “Pada Ebenaĵo”
- Esperanto: “Pada valo”
- Esperanto: “Padio”
- Estonian: “Lombardia madalik”
- Estonian: “Po madalik”
- Finnish: “Pianura Padana”
- Finnish: “Pojoen laakso”
- French: “pianura padana”
- French: “Plaine du Po”
- French: “plaine du Pô”
- French: “Plaine du Pô”
- Georgian: “პადანის დაბლობი”
- Georgian: “პადანის ვაკე”
- Georgian: “პოს დაბლობი”
- German: “Padanische Tiefebene”
- German: “Po-Ebene”
- German: “Poebene”
- Greek: “Κοιλάδα του Πάδου”
- Hebrew: “עמק הפו”
- Hungarian: “Pó-síkság”
- Indonesian: “Lembah Po”
- Italian: “piana padana”
- Italian: “pianura bolognese”
- Italian: “pianura del Po”
- Italian: “pianura lombarda”
- Italian: “Pianura padana”
- Italian: “Pianura Padana”
- Italian: “pianura padano-romagnola”
- Italian: “Pianura Padano-Veneta”
- Italian: “val padana”
- Italian: “Val Padana”
- Japanese: “パダーナ平原”
- Japanese: “パダーノ平原”
- Japanese: “ポー平原”
- Japanese: “ロンバルディア平原”
- Kazakh: “Падан жазығы”
- Kirghiz: “Падан түздүгү”
- Korean: “포 계곡”
- Latin: “Planities Padana”
- Lezghian: “Падана кьулувал”
- Ligurian: “Cianûa padann-a”
- Lithuanian: “Po lyguma”
- Lithuanian: “Po”
- Lombard: “Al Padana”
- Lombard: “Padan”
- Lombard: “Pianura padana”
- Lombard: “Pianùra padana”
- Lombard: “Pianüra Padana”
- Lombard: “Pianüra padàna”
- Lombard: “Val Padana”
- Lombard: “Val Padàna”
- Macedonian: “Долина на По”
- Macedonian: “Паданска Низина”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Po-dalen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Po-sletten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Podalen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Posletta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Posletten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Padansletta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pianura Padana”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Po-sletta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Podalen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Posletta”
- Norwegian: “Posletten”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Plana de Pò”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Plana del Pò”
- Persian: “دره پو”
- Polish: “Nizina Padańska”
- Portuguese: “Planície Padana”
- Romanian: “Câmpia Padului”
- Romanian: “Valea Padului”
- Russian: “Паданская долина”
- Russian: “Паданская низменность”
- Russian: “Паданская равнина”
- Serbian: “Padska nizija”
- Serbian: “Долина Поа”
- Serbian: “Падска низија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dolina Poa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Padska dolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Padska nizija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Padska nizina”
- Sicilian: “Chianura padana”
- Slovak: “Pádska nížina”
- Slovenian: “Padska nižina”
- Spanish: “Llanura del Po”
- Spanish: “llanura padana”
- Spanish: “Llanura Padana”
- Spanish: “Valle del Po”
- Swedish: “Pianura Padana”
- Swedish: “Po-slätten”
- Swedish: “Podalen”
- Swedish: “Poslätten”
- Swiss German: “Poebeni”
- Tibetan: “པོ་ཐང་མ།”
- Tibetan: “པོ་ཐང་མའི་”
- Tosk Albanian: “Poebene”
- Turkish: “Padan Ovası”
- Turkish: “Po Ovası”
- Ukrainian: “Паданська рівнина”
- Urdu: “وادی پو”
- Uzbek: “Padana tekisligi”
- Uzbek: “Padana Tekisligi”
- Uzbek: “Padanavenetsiya Tekisligi”
- Uzbek: “PadanaVenetsiya tekisligi”
- Venetian: “Pianura Padana”
- Vietnamese: “Thung lũng Po”
- Vlaams: “Povlakte”
- Western Panjabi: “وادی پو”
- Wu Chinese: “波河河谷”
- Yue Chinese: “波谷”
- “Basa padèna”
- “Bâsa Padèna”
- “Pianûra Padâna”
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